Report Of The Special Commission For The Investigation Of The Affairs Of The Rhode Island Company PDF Download

Excerpt from Report of the Special Commission for the Investigation of the Affairs, 1918 The duties imposed upon the Special Commission by the act creating it, Chapter 1516 of the Public Laws, approved April 19, 1917, are to make an investigation into the finances, manage ment, property and mode of operation of The Rhode Island Company, and other matters related thereto, for the purpose of determining whether or not The Company is furnishing a proper transportation service to the people of the State, and whether or not the net income of the said company is a fair and equitable return upon the property owned and controlled by it and devoted to the public service. The law directs further that upon completion of its investigation, the Commission shall determine upon such modifications of the rates of fare and transfer system as it deems just and equitable, and to certify the same to the Public Utilities Commission. The Public Utilities Commission is directed to order The Rhode Island Company to make the modifications found to be just and equitable by the Special Commission and certified by it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.